Download or read book Wit s End What Wit Is How It Works and Why We Need It written by James Geary and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2018-11-13 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A witty book about wit that steers an elegant path between waggishness and wisdom." —Stephen Fry Much more than a knack for snappy comebacks, wit is the quick, instinctive intelligence that allows us to think, say, or do the right thing at the right time in the right place. In this whimsical book, James Geary explores every facet of wittiness, from its role in innovation to why puns are the highest form of wit. Geary reasons that wit is both visual and verbal, physical and intellectual: there’s the serendipitous wit of scientists, the crafty wit of inventors, the optical wit of artists, and the metaphysical wit of philosophers. In Wit’s End, Geary embraces wit in every form by adopting a different style for each chapter; he writes the section on verbal repartee as a dramatic dialogue, the neuroscience of wit as a scientific paper, the spirituality of wit as a sermon, and other chapters in jive, rap, and the heroic couplets of Alexander Pope. Wit’s End agilely balances psychology, folktales, visual art, and literary history with lighthearted humor and acute insight, drawing upon traditions of wit from around the world. Entertaining, illuminating, and entirely unique, Wit’s End demonstrates that wit and wisdom are really the same thing.
Download or read book Battle of Wits written by Stephen Budiansky and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2000 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is the story of the Allied codebreakers puzzling through the most difficult codebreaking problems that ever existed.
Download or read book Shelburne Essays With the wits written by Paul Elmer More and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Some Forms of the Riddle Question and the Exercise of the Wits in Popular Fiction and Formal Literature written by Elizabeth Adelaide Herrmann and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Some Forms of the Riddle Question and the Exercise of the Wits in Popular Fiction and Formal Literature written by Rudolph Schevill and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Wits and Beaux of Society written by Grace Wharton and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-04-10 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1871. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
Download or read book The Wits and Beaux of Society written by Mrs. A. T. Thomson and published by IndyPublish.com. This book was released on 1861 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The wits and beaux of society by Grace and Philip Wharton written by Katherine Thomson and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 654 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Wits and Beaux of Society written by Grace and Philip Wharton and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2022-07-20 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1860.
Download or read book At Our Wits End written by Edward Dutton and published by Andrews UK Limited. This book was released on 2018-12-20 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We are becoming less intelligent. This is the shocking yet fascinating message of At Our Wits' End. The authors take us on a journey through the growing body of evidence that we are significantly less intelligent now than we were a hundred years ago. The research proving this is, at once, profoundly thought-provoking, highly controversial, and it's currently only read by academics. But the authors are passionate that it cannot remain ensconced in the ivory tower any longer. With At Our Wits' End, they present the first ever popular scientific book on this crucially important issue. They prove that intelligence — which is strongly genetic — was increasing up until the breakthrough of the Industrial Revolution, because we were subject to the rigors of Darwinian Selection, meaning that lots of surviving children was the preserve of the cleverest. But since then, they show, intelligence has gone into rapid decline, because large families are increasingly the preserve of the least intelligent. The book explores how this change has occurred and, crucially, what its consequences will be for the future. Can we find a way of reversing the decline of our IQ? Or will we witness the collapse of civilization and the rise of a new Dark Age?
Download or read book The Wits and Beaux of Society With Illustrations from Drawings by H K Browne and J Godwin Engraved by the Brothers Dalziel written by Grace WHARTON (pseud. [i.e. Mrs. Katharine Thomson], and WHARTON (Philip) pseud. [i.e. J. C. Thomson.]) and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Elegant Wits and Grand Horizontals written by Cornelia Otis Skinner and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book With the wits written by Paul Elmer More and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Your Wit Is My Command written by Tony Veale and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2021-09-07 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For fans of computers and comedy alike, an accessible and entertaining look into how we can use artificial intelligence to make smart machines funny. Most robots and smart devices are not known for their joke-telling abilities. And yet, as computer scientist Tony Veale explains in Your Wit Is My Command, machines are not inherently unfunny; they are just programmed that way. By examining the mechanisms of humor and jokes--how jokes actually works--Veale shows that computers can be built with a sense of humor, capable not only of producing a joke but also of appreciating one. Along the way, he explores the humor-generating capacities of fictional robots ranging from B-9 in Lost in Space to TARS in Interstellar, maps out possible scenarios for developing witty robots, and investigates such aspects of humor as puns, sarcasm, and offensiveness. In order for robots to be funny, Veale explains, we need to analyze humor computationally. Using artificial intelligence (AI), Veale shows that joke generation is a knowledge-based process--a sense of humor is blend of wit and wisdom. He notes that existing technologies can detect sarcasm in conversation, and explains how some jokes can be pre-scripted while others are generated algorithmically--all while making the technical aspects of AI accessible for the general reader. Of course, there's no single algorithm or technology that we can plug in to make our virtual assistants or GPS voice navigation funny, but Veale provides a computational roadmap for how we might get there.
Download or read book The English Wits written by Michelle O'Callaghan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-02-08 with total page 15 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries the Inns of Court and fashionable London taverns developed a culture of clubbing, urban sociability and wit. The convivial societies that emerged created rituals to define social identities and to engage in literary play and political discussion. Michelle O'Callaghan argues that the lawyer-wits, including John Hoskyns, in company with authors such as John Donne, Ben Jonson and Thomas Coryate, consciously reinvigorated humanist traditions of learned play. Their experiments with burlesque, banquet literature, parody and satire resulted in a volatile yet creative dialogue between civility and licence, and between pleasure and the violence of scurrilous words. The wits inaugurated a mode of literary fellowship that shaped the history and literature of sociability in the seventeenth century. This study will provide many insights for historians and literary scholars of the period.
Download or read book The Religion of the Wits at Button s Refuted by Running Up the Remoter Contests which Divide Mankind to First and Undeniable Principles In a Dialogue Between a Politician and a Divine By C N written by C. N. and published by . This book was released on 1716 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Familiar letters of love gallantry and several occasions by the wits of the last and present age Together with mr T Brown s remains written by Familiar letters and published by . This book was released on 1718 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
